{"id":9316,"date":"2024-05-23T12:01:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T12:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=9316"},"modified":"2024-05-23T12:01:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T12:01:15","slug":"kanayo-o-kanayo-and-mike-okri-slam-ban-on-smoking-and-money-rituals-in-nollywood-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=9316","title":{"rendered":"Kanayo O. Kanayo and Mike Okri slam ban on smoking and money rituals in Nollywood movies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Veteran actor Kanayo O. Kanayo and Nigerian music icon Mike Okri have frowned at the Federal Government\u2019s recent approval of the prohibition of smoking and glamorising of money rituals and killings in Nigerian films, skits and music videos.<\/p>\n

The government, on Wednesday, approved the \u201cprohibition of money ritual, ritual killing, tobacco, tobacco products, nicotine product promotion, glamorisation, display in movies, musical videos and skits\u201d in pursuant to Section 65 of the NFVCB Act 2004.<\/p>\n

NFVCA boss, Dr. Shaibu Husseini, made this known while speaking at a National Stakeholders Engagement on Smoke-Free Nollywood in partnership with Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa, CAPPA, held in Enugu.<\/p>\n

According to the NFVCB boss, \u201cToday, we are facing an industry emergency requiring bold and ambitious actions from all of us as parents, guardians and stakeholders.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, reacting to the development, veteran musician, Mike Okri described the action of the federal government as a joke.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhoever is behind this from the FG is joking. It\u2019s a way to silence the movie industry. They should focus on the real challenges facing the country,\u201d Okri snapped.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Also, reacting, popular actor Kanayo O. Kanayo described the move, as \u2018a sensible nonsense\u2019.<\/p>\n

He said that the Minister of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy, Barrister Hannatu Musa Musawa has no job in approving a move to gag the filmmakers.<\/p>\n

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